Austria, Imperial. An “1849” Merit Cross, Type III, III Class Cross with Crown, by Wilhelm Kunz Archive The base featuring the insignia

The base featuring the insignia badge in silver gilt with blue and white enamels

He was to see service fin South Africa rom May 1900 until April 1901 and thus earning himself a Q

and an Ordnance Corp ‘Shell and Flame’ collar disk on the left

The sunday insert of the Nuremberg newspaper “Nürnberger Zeitung”

fell back upon the supports

Austria, Imperial. An “1849” Merit Cross, Type III, III Class Cross with Crown, by Wilhelm Kunz Archive The base featuring the insigniaInstituted December 2 1849. Type III. In silver, a III Class Cross bearing red enamel arms, with a large central medallion featuring the initials FJ, the reverse bearing the date 1849, surmounted by a crown with interior enamel cap, the ring is marked WILHELM KUNZ WIEN, with a dianakopf denoting Vienna manufacture from 1872 1922, measures 36. 2 mm (w) x 57. 1 mm (h inclusive of integral crown suspension, weighs 17. 1 grams, worn on original trifold